The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-12
THIRTY SAID TO BE DEAD.
FIRE BREAKS OUT IN A TRAIN
WRECK IN INDIANA.

seriously GNl-A dSSSIlS6E ITdlI1
Standing on the Track was Run Down
from Behind bya Fast Freight-Train-
men Criminally Neglectful of Their
Duty.
NORTH JUDsoN, IND, Oct u.-Another
Chatsworth railroad horror occurred on the
Chicago aud Atlantic railroad this morn
ing, sixty miles east of Chicago, near Kout's
station. Seventeen passengers were killed
and burned up in the wreck, and from
twenty-A to thirty were more OF less in
mred A heavy fresh meat train telescoped
the evening accommodation train, which
leaves Chicago at 7:45 o'clock at night. The
accommodation, with one baggage car, two
coaches and one sleeper had stopped at the
water tank for water, about nine miles
west of Kout's, and the freight train fol-
lowing crashed into the sleeper, telescoping
and burning up the entire passenger
train as above stated William Perry,
Auditor OF this Stark county, and his wife
and child, were victims of the terrible fire,
which broke out almost Immediately after
the freight train crashed i'll among the pas
sengers The Perrys lived here Not
usrficle of their bodies was rescued from
the flames.
TAKEN INTO KOUT.
KoUT, IND, Oct. 1.-THE worst horrors
Of Chatsworth were duplicated here to-day.
A dozen blood-stained, smoke -begrimed,
Injured victims of railroad carelessness or
bundering were brought into the villages
little station house early this morning, and
This afternoon charred corpses, the victims
OF the same laundering or carelessnesS, were
IL bo station 1olotfn-u1 1xi,rla fbpao
miles west down the track of the Chicago
and Atlantic railway, near lonely old
water tank, piles Of fearfully tangled debris
marked the spot where a collision, seldom
eeualled for terrible results, had occurred.
According to the best estimate obtainable
for only an estimate was possible, fully
thirty human lives had been sacrificed out
right, and half that number of persons had
suffered injuries more or less serious.
HOW IT OCCURRED.
As nearly as can be gathered from the
confused stories told, the concrete facts are
that the passenger train was the east bound
express, which left Chicago at 7;l5 o'clock
last night The eccentric strap had broken
side became useless. The engineer
had stopped at the water tank
to repair, thinking he could do so
in few minutes He had not stopped more
than one minute when fast freight train
loaded with dressed meat crashed in the
rear of his train. The last car of the pas
senger train was heavy Pullman sleeper
This, when struck by the freight engine,
crushed three coaches in front and appears
to have killed or wounded everybody in
them. Seven persons were in the sleeper
and these all escaped harm, except the
shock.
FIRE BREAKS OUT.
Accounts vary as to how the wreck caught
fire. Some attribute it to coal in the freight
engine, but one passenger who was rescued
from the crushed coaches says that while
fastened between two car seats he saw the
gas with which the car was lighted sud-
denly fill the upper part of the
car with flame, the gas pipe having
apparently been broken and the escaping gas
caught from the lighted burners No evid-
ence appears in any of the stories that a
fagman was sent to the rear when the train
stopped, or that any precaution was taken
10 guard against such an accident, except
ing that the night telegraph operator at
kout says the rear brakeman on the pas
senger train hung out red light when the
train stopped. The men on the passenger
train were fully aware that the freight train
was following them.
ARRIVAL OF THE REPORTERS.
This afternoon when the reporters, who
had been long DELAYED in reaching Kout.
owing the seer ,ti.s ness of the railroad Off
rials began at Iat: :. arrive there was little
in the asnert of the village to Indicate the
calamity that had RECENTLY taken place. All
the dead bodies had been Carefully removed
from sight. Only two of the wounded
were still in the villaoe. and the local EN-
ploves of the road were deaf and dumb TO
all seekers after information. The Coroner
had been Obliged to 90 to Huntington. over
fifty miles distant. to obtain the statement
Of witnesses. and the village seemed wholly
at sea regarding the extent of the disaster.
About the only person able and
willing to tell the details here was
Dr. Mckee. The doctor is a prosperous
looking, Intelligent man OF ''5 who promptly
responded IN the dead ot nlSht 10 the cal
'nat ne take hand-cal ana so 10 iiie scene
OF Cne wreck, three miles from his residence;
Dr. Mckee rendered noble service lie had
caht tlme to give his experience IN detail,
uut stated, 10 the besG OF ms knowledge. uhat
], Wouid not ne over-stating the tactS 70 say
tlat the COLLISION had cost the llYes oil Iuliy
lhlrty people.
AT THE SCENE OF HORROR
II was shortly after O'Clock this morn.
ing when he reached the wreck and he i'm
mediately began to give his services to the
wounded. Those Who were badly hurt
when the crash came. he saws. must have
had little chance for their lives so quickly
had the cars taken fir and so thorough was
the work of tn,ll AS an illustration
of the destr1,ct n , ar Difficulty of arriving
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